ABSTRACT
The augmentation of the pay of the Private Soldiers, is represented as arising from a consideration of the wretchedness of their situation; and the pretended reduction of the foot forces is held out to the Public as an act of conomy. It had in former years been a regulation, that a Soldier should receive three shillings a week for his subsistence. The people have seen that the Private Soldier ought always to have received three shillings a week for his subsistence, and that only sixpence a week ought to have been retained as arrears. Their industry and care is in nothing more conspicuous than in the management of the above-mentioned shilling a week, the arrears of the Private Soldier. The pretended addition to the people subsistence is, in fact, no addition at all; they receives no more than the people always ought to have received.
